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pcpartpicker.com/list/TkkqRG I'm upgrading from pic related, which was a modded overbuilt that I'm giving to my younger brother. I'm mostly going to be using this rig for gaming and Photoshop.
Andrew Ross
I'm putting together a computer for my friend. He just wants something for 1080p (actually less, his monitor is something weird like 1024 or some shit).
Does it look alright? The CPU is see recommended for this price and performance range is a 6100 or 6300 but it just seems wrong not to get a quad core.
The PSU might not be strictly necessary but his current computer started its life as some Compact piece of shit and while the PSU is rated for 500w I dunno if it can actually handle it.
Grayson Murphy
CPU purely for gaming, 4 cores and 1151 socket, won't be overclocked, H170 motherboard Which to choose from 6500, 6600 and 6700 6500 and 6600 only differ by several $ so I guess 6600 would be the smarter choice, but 6700 is like a good 100$ more expensive, would hyperthreading give any benefits or is it not worth it ?
Samuel Perez
i3-6100
Gabriel Young
6500
Ryder Brooks
>6500 >rx 480 enjoy your bottleneck
Carson Young
i5 6500. 6600 non K isn't worth it and the i7 non K definitely isn't worth it.
Oliver Richardson
is the difference between 6500 and 6600 really that small that it wouldn't be worth paying less than 20 pounds more ?
Adrian Carter
Yeah. At least the jump between i5 6400 and 6500 is significant enough to justify the price increase. Not so much for the 6600 non K. It's only 100 MHz more for Christ's sake.
Gabriel Miller
Please be b8 If not >i7 for gaming >Kraken cooler >300 dollar Mobo >32 gigs of RAM >ANY Samsung SSD >EVGA graphics card (overheats like a bitch) You don't need a 3,000 dollar machine. I just saved you $600 pcpartpicker.com/list/VDGdHN
First time build. Some parts are placeholders, just there to give an estimate for cost. Some reason the 480 doesn't have a price, but I'll get it later.
Thoughts?
Levi Johnson
>240mm too much cooling! >evga not enough cooling!
Jaxon Gutierrez
I7 will come in handy for photoshop though for that chap
Caleb Wood
Yeah dawg. No need to go overkill with a 6600k. Also I have personal experience with evgas overheating
Camden Collins
don't get a K cpu if you don't plan to overclock
Jackson Sullivan
What's with the meme cooler and B150 mobo?
You know, you're better off dumping the meme cooler entirely, getting yourself a Z170 mobo and installing an aftermarket CPU cooler somewhere later down the line when you're ready to overclock (i.e. need more performance). For now, don't buy one at all and use the shitty alumemium cooler Intel provides you with instead.
Aiden Adams
>cpu: ok because ps
>cpucooler holy shit don´t buy this trash buy a noctuna or alpenfön aircooler, that doesn´t have the big changse to start leaking
>Mobo why??? just get a good 150$ z170 board and be done with it you don´t need this
>Storage >wd blue i hope you do backups
>GPU: evga is ok but gets hot
>PSU: spent like 10$ more and get the bost one the market, SeaSonic Prime .
>Soundcard man this soundcard is trash, if you buy such an expensive mobo or one around 150$ this soundcard doesn´t make a difference, get one for like 80-100 dollar or none.
>lancard why??? wasted money
Adrian Harris
Which is bottlenecking which?
Christian Murphy
In your case, probably the GPU bottlenecking the rest of your system.
Noah Myers
he is a troll, ignore him
Angel Brooks
I think you're exaggerating. The 6500 should pair well with a 480.
Grayson Morris
He's being a dick. The GPU and CPU match well. 8GB of RAM is all you need for gaming. Get a B150 motherboard instead. Look for a cheaper one that is around the same price as the H110. Power is adequate.
Ian Wilson
>upgradeing from a 980 ti Just keep the thing the only upgrade you need is a new cpu
Luke Cruz
Unless you're planning to run your games at 720p/144FPS your GPU will definitely be the bottleneck.
Jordan Thomas
>480 >skylake there is no bottleneck you dumb newshit
Adam Howard
whats a good z170 mobo? i dont need any meme features just a great mobo with smart layout for good cable management
Henry Lewis
It looks good but i would get a power supply based on seasonic reference
Easton White
OK well the idea was to get a better CPU than necessary to facilitate a GPU upgrade down the line so I'm fine with that.
Whats the advantage of a B150 over an H110?
Isaiah Lee
Oh it's THIS guy again
Austin Rivera
>OK well the idea was to get a better CPU than necessary to facilitate a GPU upgrade down the line so I'm fine with that. You picked the right CPU for the job. The RX480 pairs well with the i5 6500. However, the GPU will still be your bottleneck. Isn't that what you were asking?
Samuel Hill
?? what is this bullshit you talk?
Robert Wright
I hope you're trolling
Lucas Parker
I was mainly asking to make sure it wasn't the other way around and the CPU wasn't the bottleneck.
Oliver Green
You honestly won't need 32GB of RAM.
Corsair power supplies are shit, and very liable to fail. I've replaced it with something much better.
The motherboard you chose already has better sound quality than that soundcard, and it can even support headphones up to 600 ohms. It also has networking built in. If you go for the Hero ALPHA you'll even get WIFI and Bluetooth.
Other than that you're fine for the most part. You might consider picking up some extra case fans.
William Perez
>mfw people on Sup Forums waste money like this
Brandon Garcia
ignore him
Ethan Gray
paid SeaSonic shill at your service my Lord aside for reall man if you spent 140$ on corsair who buy their parts from seasonic, why not go to the producer and get the best parts they don´t sell?
Julian Nguyen
Are you trolling?
I mean you could give Skylake a 1080 l and it still wouldn't bottleneck the CPU. So I don't see your point.
Ethan Fisher
>Making sure to look at legitimate PSU reviews/testing
Attempting to run your games at 720p/144FPS will be way more taxing on your CPU compared to your GPU than running em at 1080/60 or even 1080/90. If you want to stress test your CPU while gaming running on lower resolution and higher FPS is the best method.
Are you people fucking stupid?
Nathan Bell
RX 480 isn't a bottleneck at 1080p you retard
Joseph Collins
ok you are legit retarded please never post again
Joseph Green
Every fucking system has a bottleneck, always. Is it retard day today in Sup Forums?
Colton Russell
stop being autistic user
Matthew Morales
Redpill me on blue vs. brown switches
Grayson Gonzalez
They are, ignore them. They think they need an i5 to get the good frames, when the CPU is just going to sit there and snore
maybe they'll do photoshop
Blake Wilson
Never reply to me again.
Hunter Mitchell
>your arguments are invalid because: >point a >point b >point c >i now pass on the microphone to you, good sir so that you may further defend your stances with logical explenations built on factual premise
Landon Myers
>Whats the advantage of a B150 over an H110? Some dude explained it to me a few days ago. It's confusing as shit. The B150 has PCIe 3.0 instead of the old PCIe 2.0, as well as having more chipset lanes or some shit (I don't understand that stuff). But he also said it actually makes no practical difference to 95% of people or something like that. He said if the B150 is the same price or even $5 more, might as well get it. But if you wanna save $5 or $10, the H110 will still work fine and you won't notice any difference. Confusing as fuck, but there ya go.
This definitely will not happen with that i5.
Grayson Reyes
Helping my cousin to build him a gaming computer Need suggestions on what to change, etc.
>CPU Intel Core i5-6600 3.3GHz Quad-Core Processor >Motherboard ASRock H170M Pro4 Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard >RAM Kingston HyperX Fury Black 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory >CPU Cooler Cooler Master Hyper 212X 82.9 CFM CPU Cooler >Storage Western Digital Blue 1TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive Sandisk X400 256GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive >GPU Some 1070 >Case Fractal Design Arc Mini R2 MicroATX Mini Tower Case >PSU SeaSonic G 550W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply
This is what I managed to throw together so far, pretty much every part can be changed. Chose any RAM, because they don't really differ from one another Didn't really research on SSD other than that it's m.2
Joseph Nelson
There is no point in ddr4 if you go 2133. Go z170 and higher frequency ram
Parker Ross
>confusing as shit
jesus christ. Let me break it down for you plebs. B150 lets you have 4 dimm slots, H110 only gets 2 slots. Only 1 GPU for a H110, etc etc.
How are you people building PCs without understanding chipset differences
Jack Garcia
>1070 useless get a 480/1060/fury since most of those are only 20-10% less powerful but way cheaper
Nathaniel Cox
It's like legos, just plug 'n play. I didn't know I was expected to know differences between chipsets.
Daniel Adams
>1070 >10% more powerful than the RX480
Colton Murphy
Z170 is more expensive and overclocking won't be used anyway, so I don't see why Also can you even use DDR3 on that chipset ?
Angel Myers
Considering the EVGA is about $80 it's $70 more.
Juan Sanchez
how long in your opinion are life of a 480/1060 in your opinion? I'd like to not have to upgrade for atleast 2 years is that reasonable?
Matthew Hill
I'm no expert, but I wonder if you should get more power. Like 600W or 650W.
I wonder if a i5 6500 would be plenty for a 1070.
Well I told the guy I was talking to that I am not interested in sli or crossfire.
Christian Gomez
If you just go by the lego standard, you get shit like:
>K series cpu in a non-Z mobo >buying OC ram when mobo doesn't support >buying SATA 6Gb/s stuff when mobo only does 3gb/s >etc
James Peterson
There are a few very specific boards where you can, but for the most part you can't.
Brody Robinson
its 20%, the 10% is meant for the fury vs the 1070
Joshua Hill
As far as I know, the power should be enough and too much, because pcpartpicker shows only like 300+W and I recall people calling other people retarded for having 600+W PSU on their 1 GPU systems that don't use AMD
Juan Long
Hm OK well that makes sense I guess.
The two mobos I'm deciding between are the exact same price so I guess B150 is the way to go.
Dylan Nelson
It's like 50% faster.. plus the GTX 1070 actually has much more overclock headroom.
I got my 80+ gold PSU for $60 And obviously gold or platinum is great quality because it's impossible to make an efficient crap quality PSU*
Daniel Bennett
The 1070 is 10% faster than a Fury X. Cmon now son.
Ian Walker
If you buy a new mobo without sata 6gb/s you deserve all the problems that come to you
Luis Young
Long story short: I need to use Vista for a week more.
I have an old hard drive with Vista installed on it. What do I do to make that old hard drive with Vista on it, work on my new build with new parts? Please respond.
Jaxon Bailey
Reinstall vista
Kevin King
Poop. Was hoping I could avoid it. Thank you.
Colton Powell
>its 50% faster lol no it isn't the 1080 is just barely 50-45% faster, stop shilling
Ryder Walker
I mean you could always try your luck at first, but afaik, changing key components require fresh windows install
Parker Garcia
while looking up why windows 10 doesn't work with PCI adapters, I found out that Windows 10 has too much spyware to be legal for retail businesses
Colton Bennett
>vista W H Y H Y
Blake Peterson
What do you guys use for all your extra PCI slots? I have like 5 free ones and have no idea what to throw in this thing.
Also is there a way to make the top of your GPU not so ugly? I just got an MSI armor and its my first build so I'm new to this whole thing. Not a fan of how night everything looks only to have that bare back of the card facing up.
Joshua Ward
Thanks for your contripootiuns, Pajeet.
Xavier Cox
>uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/PBsvjc its a ok buily the only 2 things i would change is Ram into 3000mhz and dont buy sandisk ssd get crucial(budget) or samsung(the good stuff)
Camden Sullivan
Id take it over Windows 10 any day, every day
Cooper Cruz
My wireless adapter doesn't have drivers for Windows 10, or Windows 7 for that matter.
I'm pretty sure I even checked the chipset on it and the manufacturers website. New ones in the mail...
Jace Hall
I read kingston makes ok budget stuff too
Kayden Robinson
Nothing You use them as you need them, you should always have a spare one open I mean you'd be hard pressed to actually fill them all nowadays without a second GPU, things are getting too functional for 8 PCIe slots to be necessary
Gavin Green
>unable to communicate in anything but memes go back
Cooper Bell
As I've stated I didn't really put any time into SSD, thanks for the heads up on the brands RAM is another problem, as the motherboard seems to only support 2133
Andrew Cook
>Crucial better than Sandisk Ehhh
Tyler Martin
Considering you're spreading shit I think my response was fitting enough.
Lucas Russell
...
Evan Brown
Please respond
Juan Gonzalez
It's not your adapter that doesn't have Windows 10 drivers, it's Windows 10 that has no fucking hardware driver support whatsoever
Leo Gomez
red pill yourself, it piss easy googling the difference and even then you have to feel them physically to understand what you need
Joshua Hughes
Yeah I mean I really can't find any use for them so there's a huge chunk of open space below me GPU that looks off. The only things people have recommended are >Sound card >Wifi adapter >Fan
But I don't know of any good ones or if I really need those. I guess a fan would be nice if it was slotted above the GPU to cover the bare part of the card I don't like to see.
Tyler Reyes
I know what the difference is from reading. I want user experiences.
Can't go look at them in store because i have crippling autism and can't leave the house.
Eli Thompson
Blue godly. Anything else is for phags
Nathan Sanders
I'm obsessed with trying to build the cheapest, QTest, fastest PC possible. Not as my main PC, just to see what is possible for $100.
